The Daily Telegraph turns 140: Current and ex-staffers look back on death knocks and doorstops
Since its launch in 1879, The Daily Telegraph has been a big part of the media landscape in Australia.
Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph has had a huge role in the development in Australia’s media.
The newspaper has been in the News Corp (previously News Ltd) stable since 1972. And before that it was owned for 36 years by Frank Packer’s Australian Consolidated Press.
The Tele was broadsheet for its first half century, switching to tabloid format in 1927.
The editorship has been a stepping stone for some of Australia’s best known journalists. ABC chair Ita Buttrose was editor in chief from 1981 to 1984; News Corp’s corporate affairs boss Campbell Reid started his career on the newspaper in 1981 before going on to edit the title; Col Allan who went on to become one of News Corp’s top editors in New York, was a high profile editor during the 1990s; David Penberthy led the paper before going on to edit news.com.au, launch commentary site The Punch and editor the Sunday Mail in Adelaide; and Sky News boss Paul Whittaker edited the paper until 2015.
The Daily Telegraph is the voice of Sydney? A reactionary bunch of wowsers with a taste for punching down, an inflated sense of importance and a wild over-estimation of their own talents?
Yep. Sounds like the Daily Telegraph crew really are the voice of Sydney.
No photographers?
I’m with you Nath, some of the mad pic-eds of the time would have been worth a chat, surely?
It’s one of the reasons we now live in a NeoLib Murdoch-racy. Shameless Coalition propaganda rag that’s not just an enemy of democracy but of humanity. It’s commonly called the Government Gazette in Canberra (for good reason). The world would literally be better off without it and its siblings.
Wasn’t Peter Holder the editor of Sydney Confidential during the Olympics not Fiona Connolly? And he was very much a double act with Jo Casamento. Talk about rewriting history!
Miranda Devine, a columnist and not an actual journalist, is most proud of “exposing the Safe Schools program.” What a deludinoid. This woman gets enough space to peddle hate and harmful lies, why give her another platform?
And all of these people too gutless to address the biggest issue of our time— climate change, because their boss has chosen not to believe science. I look forward to seeing the Murdoch’s and their grovelling journalists snivelling in the docks in the 2030 Climate Trials.